Spooler-guide



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A. J. NICHOLS.

SPOOLER GUIDE.

1 I0.33 4',799. Patented Jan. 26, 1886.

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AMBROSE J. NICHOLS, OF NEW MARKET, NEW HAMPSHIRE.

SPOOLER-GUIDE:

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 334,799, dated January 26,1886.

Serial No. 151,320. (No model.)

T 0 all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, AMBROSE J. NiorioLs, of New Market, county of Rockingham. State of New Hampshire, have invented an Improvement in Spoo1er-Guides, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like letters on the drawings representing like parts.

The object of this invention is to produce a spooler-guide adapted to different numbers or sizes of thread or yarn within certain limits.

In accordance with myinvention the upper blade or member of the spoolerguide is pivoted on the lower member, so as to act by gravity upon the thread or yarn being drawn under and between it and the lower blade or member, the latter preferably presenting two edges, the edge of the upper or gravitating blade occupying a position in a vertical line directly opposite the space between the two edges of the lower blade or member. The pivoted upper blade or memberhas a shoulder, which, cooperating with one ear rising from the lower member of the spooler-guide, acts as a stop to prevent the upper and lower blades from being too far separated.

Figure 1, in elevation, shows two of my improved spoolerguides mounted adjustably on a rod held by a standard erected on a rail. Fig. 2 is an enlarged front elevation of one of my improved spooler-guides; Fig. 3, a section thereof in the dotted line so a: of Fig. 2; Fig. 4, a top View of Fig. 2; and Fig. 5 shows the upper blade detached.

The rail A, common to spooling-machines, has erected upon it the standard B, which supports the rod 0, to which the lower blade or member of my improved spooler guide is attached by a screw, 0', the said lower blade being preferably composed of twothin plates, (1 I), having aspace, 4:, between them, and having two eyes or loops, cc, to embrace the rod 0 and receive the screw 0. The lower member of the spoolerguide has at one end an ear, d d, herein shown as a piece of metal bent to form an open-sided loop, in which is placed the larger end of the upper blade or member, f, the latter being supported by a suitable pivotpin, c, which supports the bladef in such manner that it rests by gravity upon the thread or yarn t as the latter is drawn between the blades and moved from one toward the other end of the space between the upper and lower members, as the diameter of the mass of thread or yarn on the receiving-spool increases, as is well understood. The upper blade is provided with an arm or shoulder, f, which, cooperating with the ear d d, determines the width of the space between the edges of the upper and lower members of the spoolerguidc, and the arm f by striking against the said ear, prevents the descent of the blade f too far into the slot or space 4. The blade is of such weight that it will by gravity act with sufficient power to remove the projections from threads or yarns of several different sizes or counts, and the movable member or blade of the spoolerguide does not need to be adj usted, as heretofore, to adapt it to threads or yarns of different sizes or counts.

Two edges or surfaces below the thread or yarn and one above, and the latter the edge of a gravitating blade, enable the said surfaces to more easily and successfully remove than with simply one edge below and one above the thread or yarn, as heretofore.

My improved spoolerguide may be sup ported on a spooling-machine in any usual or well-known manner. The method or plan of support is not of my invention.

The bladef has the usualhook, 8, and near the end of the blade is an upright portion, 9,

. a space being left between it and the end of the blade f for the ready entranceof the thread or yarn between the acting edges of the blade and plates a b.

If desired, the lower member or surface upon which the thread or yarn rests may be made to present a single edge instead of two edges, as shown in the drawings.

I claim- 1 The spooler-guide composed, essentially, of a lower member and a pivoted upper blade or member, the lower edge of which acts by gravity against the thread or yarn extended between it and the lower member, substantially as described.

2. The spooler-guide composed of a lower member having two acting edges to support the yarn at opposite sides of a space, and of projections or specks from the thread or yarn an upper blade or member, the lower edge of I between the two edges of the lower member of the spooler-guide, to operate substantially as described.

4. The combination, with the lower member of a spooler' guide having an ear, (1, of an I 5 upper pivoted blade, f, having a shoulder or projection, f, to co-operate with the said ear, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I havesigned my name to this specification in the presence of two sub- 20 scribing witnesses.

AMBROSE J. NICHOLS.

Witnesses:

G. W. GREGORY, B. J. NoYEs. 

